Theorist Lawrence Kohlberg by Vincent Veneris, and Lana Williams

Level I. Preconventional Morality Stage 1. Obedience and Punishment Orientation. Stage 2. Individualism and Exchange. Level II. Conventional Morality Stage 3. Good Interpersonal Relationships Stage 4. Maintaining the Social Order Level III. Postconventional Morality Stage 5. Social contract and Individual Rights Stage 6. Universal Principles Kohlberg’s Six Stages

 When… Timeline of Kohlberg’s Life and Work  October 15, 1927: Kohlberg born in Bronxville, New York 1948: After passing a number of exams with outstanding scores, Kohlberg enters The University of Chicago and completes his bachelor’s degree in Psychology in one year  1949: Kohlberg begins his doctoral work at The University of Chicago : Using the Dilemma of Heinz, Kohlberg completes his doctoral dissertation research on the moral development of children, and proposes his six stages  : Kohlberg teaches at his alma mater, The University of Chicago 1968: As a result of his dissertation research, Kohlberg found professional fame and was recruited by Harvard University, where he began teaching education and social psychology and expanded his professional research related to moral development Timeline

1969: Kohlberg travels to Israel where he is impressed by the moral development of youth participating in kibbutz, or a collective farm in Israel that once mirrored much of communist thought, today, they are often privately owned and operated because of changing forces in the economic climate. A secondary criticism of the kibbutz was the time that the youth who operated the kibbutz spent away from their parents, often spending as little as one night a week at home. Influenced by the kibbutz, Kohlberg returns to The United States and founds several “just communities”, his first being The Cluster School 1971: While conducting cross-cultural work in Belize, Kohlberg contracts a tropical disease that will plague him physically and mentally for the next sixteen years 1987: On leave from a Massachusetts hospital where he is seeking treatment for the above illness, Kohlberg commits suicide by drowning himself in Boston Harbor. He was 59 years old

What stage is Bill at?

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